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West Brom players could fund fans' coaches to a game later this season

Albion's players could pay for free coach travel for supporters to an away game later this season.

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For 16 years, the Baggies offered fans free coach travel to one game a year but stopped running the service last season.

Instead, the club decided to subsidise all coach travel – to the tune of £2 per person per match – throughout both last season and this season in order to reward regular travellers.

However, technical director Luke Dowling is planning to ask head coach Darren Moore about the prospect of the players paying for coach travel to one game this season to show their appreciation of the fans' support.

Dowling announced this idea at the latest Albion Assembly meeting, which took place last week. The minutes of that meeting have now been published.

The club also confirmed 'The Liquidator' had been removed from the pre-match playlist for the time being, "owing to complaints about the bad language it generated among some supporters."

The club confirmed that ‘O Fortuna’ and ‘Insomnia’ would return to the pre-match playlist.

The Albion Assembly is a quarterly meeting between fans and club representatives to discuss a number of topics.

Dowling, who was appointed technical director in September, attended the January meeting and conducted a Q&A with supporters afterwards.

The next Assembly meeting takes place in April.